On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:01:10PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:51:00PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> Just for completeness, here are patches that I believe will allow > >> tex2lyx to run successfully on Win95 and Win98 and will allow both LyX > >> 1.3.x and LyX 1.4.x to be used as a conversion filter on such machines. > >> (It's likely that Qt/WinFree will die a horrible death though...) > > > Given that Qt 4 is (also) GPL'ed on Win this seems quite certain. > > Right, but we'll need to patch our qt frontend source code to use Qt4, no?
'patch' would be a proper British understatement. 'rework' would be closer in a continental climate. > (Ie, that won't happen until the LyX 1.5 cycle.) Sure. > And, anyway, I actually meant that running an executable compiled against > Qt/WinFree will die a horrible death today on Win98. Apparently. > > > Btw, some good news on the Qt front: it starts getting usable > > performance-wise with 4.0.1 > > (Don't tell the Trolls, though...) > > Yes, I've been keeping half an eye on your posts to the qt-devel list. The nice thing is that the respond positively to pushing... Andre'
